Tuesday, August 23, 2011

A slip, or something more sinister, Kompas?

The "strange apology" by a respected newspaper

Ring their bell. Indonesians are very proud of their new-found freedom of the Press. Therefore, Kompas' apology to Najib Razak and family injures that pride, and injures it badly, not least because Kompas is (was?) "the most respected newspaper in the land ... has the highest circulation ... is very conservative and very careful about what it writes, so much so that sometimes its readers have to wade through lots of ho-ing and humming just to get at the meat of a story".

Worse still for the proud Indonesian is the not knowing if it was a screw-up or a cover up on the part of Kompas journalists, or something more sinister involving others.

When I chanced upon YB Khairy's twitter on the Kompas apology, he taunting Anwar Ibrahim's supporters for their silence on the matter, I quickly contacted blogger Unspun, a former colleague at the Star in PJ from another time, to check if it was true. Ong alerted me of his posting yesterday, As always, he sums it up nicely, calling Kompas' apology "a strange apology".

What's really bizarre, though, is the decision by the Kompas' editors to publish the Aug 4 article in the first place.

If this had happened in New Straits Times, heads would have been on the chopping block. But in Indonesia where we believed there was Press freedom, they are all "left wondering how it came about that the most respected publication in the country could have fumbled so badly, apologized so strangely and what sort of checks and balances it exercises to ensure that people are not the victims of misreporting?"

A TS who attended the Daughter's kenduri gave a low down of the ceremony esp the gifts to the family which include canary yellow diamondss, 4 Merc and a Bentley. Somebody asked 'How come they are so rich?' The TS laughingly replied, 'Probably some Russian Mafia connection.'

When I first read about the Wikileaks cable while in Chicago during my long hiatus from this blogspot in December last year, the wording struck me as odd especially this portion:

“ONA assessed, and their Singapore counterparts concurred, ‘it was a set-up job and he probably knew that, but walked into it anyway’,” the cable states.http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/anwar-silent-tweets-blame-on-sb-for-wikileaks-sex-expose/

which by the way also has a link to the one below that shows how one can even film the action covertly with the target having no inkling that his presumed secure bee hive is in actuality a honey trap teeming with invisible bugs!

coming on the heels of which was the Apple furore and this:http://www.gmanews.tv/story/218498/technology/android-also-collects-users-locaton-data-researcher

Yes folks, you can remotely activate the remote camera and recorder on the cellphone as I have done while fooling around in my lab ( I am in the electronics line by the way and have worked with INTEL, Western Digital etc on a number of high tech projects including the recent Ivy Bridge and in devising surveillance gadgets)and as attested in reality by the cases mentioned above. We, people in the field, knew it could be technically effected long ago and the spooks having learnt of that have adopted the technology for their intel gathering and I can safely assume Chingkieporean spooks as are their Malaysian counterparts are not far behind on that score. That much I can divulge...........

Thus when OANA is said to have (quote)“assessed the information”, it means in intelligence jargon as " they reviewed the TECHNICAL data ( conversations, photos, intercepted phone messages/calls etc) and affirmed the veracity of their Chingkieporean counterparts' findings. A sort of reconfirming the obvious if you like.

By itself this amounts to not much by way of evidence in a court of law but when melded with the circumstantial evidence, it is a bombshell. And pray what is that circumstantial data? Let me elaborate the circumstantial evidence I have foraged for after being alerted by that queer statement in that Wikileak and by this nonchalantly gay disclosure from the dock.

Hey Malakie Donkie, (self professed soldier turn farmer, built like a pugilist, but actually a skinnie inbreedie resultie of an unholie liasonie betwie his mummie and grankie)You see,inbreed has defects like bad memory. you mfucker are a soldier turn farmer lah, not in electronics line. You keep your inbreeding up, and you will never catch up with the chinkies lah. the most you can do is to keep screwing your family and writing about unwashed asses, cocksucklers, chinkie and hindulen scums here and get a hell lot of respect from the rest of the malakie donkies. Let you know a secret here,I was once in Intel and never notice any malakie donkie working as engineers, perhaps as security guards but not in any management or technical post, no way. Your inbreeding mind cannot think in those capacities.hahaha